Tuesday, June 24, 2008

A Note on Progress

I'm sorry to say that progress on My Avatar Editor is not going as quickly as I had hoped. I've been incredibly busy with 'real life' and haven't had time to pursue much out of that (i.e. the editor).

Chances are if anything is going up any time soon, it will just be a re-skin of the old editor. This means none of the new features will be available; it will just be the old editor with a different look and feel. But even that can take some time.

If anyone is super anxious just to get their hands back on the editor (in whatever form they can get it), drop a comment. Given enough interest, I can try to get something basic out sooner than later.

The concerns from Nintendo apply to all previous versions of the editor, so I am unable to re-release any of those, AIR or otherwise. I will need to re-skin and remove any possible references to Mii™ or Wii™ - at least in a context which could confuse the viewer in terms of project authenticity.

Specifically concerning the AIR build, I will need to rewrite much of that since I believe the last build was built on a beta version of AIR. I don't know how much the APIs have changed in the final 1.0 (or now 1.1) release, but I don't think it will be super difficult to fix and republish as a new AIR app.

I think an Avatar Editor like dicussed so far in your blog would be brilliant. The mii's ar ethe best thing aout the Wii and to be able to creqte similar (though by the sounds of it, superior' avatars for tbe PC would be so much fun. Everyone should have a mii, er , avatar.

i would also like a copy of the old version... is that something that is possible to send via email??? I know i'm anonymous but i figure i'd ask if you'd do that before requesting it. thanks!!!! i love being able to make images of my mii's!!

I purchased the Mii (Manager)editor From a major Electronics store 2 weeks ago, Is it no good? I also wonder if this had anything to do with the difficulty of the download. Can you not sell your talents to individuals outside of the retail market?

I know you didn't mention anything about reporting back on the Beta software, but I thought I'd mention that when I try to save the .avatar binary my browser (safari) just downloads a text file with the error copy: Error: Invalid type.

how can i use the old *.mii files in this new program? i tried renaming the extention to *.avatar but that didn't work. What's the method to get mii's from the console onto the editor, change them and then back onto the console filename-wise? (i know how to do the actual transferring). Thank you!!

Much of the functionality that .mii files and other features relied on has been broken with the new changes.

I'll try to get enough working to at least load the default girl or default boy in from scratch.

As a workaround, you can get the default boy if you: right-click on the editor, select Settings..., clicking on the third tab (Local Storage), sliding the slider to 0, selecting OK when you're warned that the data will be removed, then sliding the slider back to where it was (at least 100k should be OK). This clears out the saved character. Refresh the page and you should have the boy back.

The load feature *should* work now. I've also allowed extensions .mii, .mae, and .avatar to be used as binary file extensions (case shouldn't matter). Files without those extensions will be parsed as XML, possibly even as hex text if XML fails. I don't know if it does that now, but it could be a good fallback.